If you got a PlayStation 4 for Christmas but network outages spoiled your fun, Sony wants to make it up to you.

Sony Computer Entertainment America will offer 10% off PlayStation Store purchases including games, TV shows and movies as a gesture of thanks for users’ patience following an outage of several days caused by denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

In addition, PlayStation Plus members who had an active membership or free trial on Dec. 25 will receive a membership extension of five days, Eric Lempel of Sony Network Entertainment wrote in a blog post. [Read the rest of this entry…]

Mobile payments are supposed to be fast, easy and convenient. I knew when I pulled up at a McDonald’s drive-through window the other day that the fast food giant’s implementation of Apple Pay challenged. I just didn’t know challenged it would be.

“I’d like to pay with Apple Pay,” I told the smiling employee on the other side of the drive-up window. Her bright smile instantly vanished. But she did her job, lugging out the McDonald’s payment terminal and holding it out the window. I then reached out the car window with my phone in my hand to make the NFC connection that would allow my credit card payment to register. [Read the rest of this entry…]

Australian cloud services vendor Bulletproof announced today that it will pay up to AU$3.9 million in cash and shares to acquire Sydney-based cloud consulting company Pantha Corp.

Pantha Corp, based in Manly, is a consulting partner with Amazon Web Services, with a history in DevOps and cloud deployment for major enterprise customers, including AAP, Red Balloon, and Sydney Airport Corporation — a project it has worked on with Bulletproof for years. [Read the rest of this entry…]